‘The Cat in the Hat’ Review: Bill Hader Leads an Animated Dr. Seuss Comedy So Overstuffed It’s Like a Marvel Movie for Tots
Yet even as the movie departs all too eagerly from the innocent wildness of the Seuss books, it devotes itself, with a corporate diligence that’s the opposite of free-spirited, to mimicking the scale and spirit and plot setups of too many familiar blockbusters.
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- The book was first introduced in 1957, and it is hard to believe it has been nearly 70 years since the chaotic but cool cat came into our lives, but it is even […].
- I was among the many little kids whose first introduction to literature was the Dr.
The new "Cat in the Hat," it goes without saying at this point, makes no attempt to be a faithful adaptation of Dr.
That would simply be too quaint for our buzzy, mercurial, attention-crashing, video-games-on-Ritalin era.
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